Robert E. Manley, Manley Burke The unsung heroes of the Greek world are officers and trustees of house corporations. The typical house corporation owns land and a building occupied by a fraternity chapter. The officers and trustees have special duties...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Two of the University of Virginia's oldest fraternities - Zeta Psi and Kappa Alpha - hosted a Halloween  party in 2002 at which at least three costumed students  painted their faces black or brown....

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Two years ago, in December of 2000, Terry Sterling died, allegedly  as a result of choking on his own  vomit after a bout of binge drinking. Sterling had  been a freshman at Old Dominion...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com At approximately 2:00 a.m. on October 10th, Albert Jerome Refuerzo Santos drowned in Manzanita Lake at the University of Nevada Reno. Santos was a freshman pledge of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Published reports indicate...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The Nation of Islam held a "Men's Meeting on Black on Black Crime, Violence and Drugs in Communities of Color" in the City of Boston-owned McCormick Center. Louis Farrakhan was the principal speaker. Women...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Scott Kruger died at the age of 18 during his freshman year at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. He attended a Phi Gamma Delta party where he was a pledge and consumed alcohol to...

Barbara Schwartz Bromberg, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Introduction: In October, 2002, the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service released its annual Continuing Professional Education (CPE) materials for 2003 relating to tax-exempt organizations. CPE materials are used for training  IRS...

Timothy M. Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Relationship statements or expectation documents developed by universities are frequently a mixed bag. Many of the standards these documents seek to implement are in and of themselves innocuous and do not necessarily place major...

James C. Harvey The November 2002 issue of Fraternal Law featured an article by Holiday Hart McKiernan of Alpha Chi Omega on the subject of relationship statements. Ms. McKiernan recommended that Greek-letter groups cooperate with their host universities in developing...